Learning to effectively deal with the inevitable conflicts that arise in children’s social relationships is a major developmental task. Being able to act in a forgiving manner in response to an offending peer may help children to move forward despite the offenses and conflicts that occur. The results of the studies reported in this dissertation reveal initial insight into the determinants and consequences associated with children’s propensity to forgive. Apart from having provided an overview of studies that increase our understanding about when, why, and how children forgive an offending peer, I proposed a model that may serve as a basis for future exploration into this topic. It is my hope that this dissertation inspires scholars to further examine the study on forgiveness among children. Not only because many important and interesting questions remain to be addressed, but perhaps mostly because there is simply too much at stake to ignore the promise of forgiveness as a balm for some of our species’ destructive propensities. In keeping with Desmond Tutu’s saying “without forgiveness there is no future” (1998; p. xiii) - not for societies, not for romantic relationships, and perhaps especially not for our children that we hold so dear.
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